United Nations

UN "Scorecard" Pushes Cities to Manage Climate Risks

August 09, 2017

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently launched a revised "Disaster Resilience Scorecard" to pressure cities to improve their management of disaster-related risks, including catastrophic weather events fueled by global warming.
WHO Raises Alarm on European Obesity

August 09, 2017

Demonstrating its continued expenditure of resources on noncommunicable diseases, as opposed to epidemics that can be transmitted across borders, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a report pushing for targeted efforts by European governments to combat the "alarming rise" in adolescent obesity on the continent.
UNESCO Seeks "Gender-Responsive" Schooling in Africa

August 09, 2017

In May, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted an Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and School Health in Zambia pushing for government authorities to implement "gender-responsive education" and "comprehensive sexuality education" in school curricula to further the UN's "sustainable development" health and education targets.
UNESCO Examines Universities' SDG Promotion

August 09, 2017

UNESCO's International Association of Universities has published a global survey of higher education's role in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finding that universities are implementing the SDGs "at all levels" but mostly have failed so far to develop a "strategic plan" to push sustainable development among students.
UNESCO Monitors Progress on "Global Citizenship Education"

August 09, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a study in May showing widespread success in its agenda to insert "sustainable development" and climate education in national curricula around the world, tempered by lagging results in the replacement of lessons on "national citizenship" with its doctrine of "Global Citizenship Education."
UN Women Seeks "Gender-Responsive" SDG Fulfillment

August 09, 2017

In the lead-up to the UN's High Level Political Forum to review progress on fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Women hosted a program in May on how to achieve "gender-responsive implementation" of the SDGs through the broad concepts of gender equality and women's "empowerment."
UNESCO Seeks "Gender Sensitive" Arab Media

August 08, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted a training event aimed at teaching journalists in the Arab world how to protect against “gender bias” in reporting and how to use media to help “progress” society in line with the Sustainable Development Goal of “gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
UNESCO Official Highlights "Cultural" Element in SDGs

August 08, 2017

Jyoti Hosagrahar of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) highlights the expansive nature of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by pointing out that it is the first set of global development commitments to refer to the "safeguarding and promotion of culture" and calls for their implementation to be "culturally-informed."
UNESCO Trains Arab Youth on SDG Education

August 08, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a training seminar for young professionals in the Arab world to train them how to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their school curricula, businesses, and other organizations.
UNICEF Joins Tech Companies' AI Initiative

August 07, 2017

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced its participation in the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology company initiative seeking to use AI and access to data to solve societal problems, such as the "spread of disease, responses to climate change and disasters, and the uncertain future of jobs and employment."